CaseCircle1998
Lompoc, CA, USA
We saw a circular flashing object in the eastern sky slowly descending.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-09
- Where
- Lompoc, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 40
- Geo
- 34.639, -120.458 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lompoc-ca-1998-c252cb
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Lompoc, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 232 sightings in 1998.
- Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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